Anna Letitia Barbauld's "Rights of Woman"

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Discussion; Anna Letitia Barbauld's Rights of Woman.
Anna Letitia Barbauld’s poem Rights of Woman presents women’s dilemma in the struggle for equality and recognition in a patriarch society. The poet urges women to stand up against all forms of oppression and injustices faced under the patriarch rule of men. The second line of the first stanza, “Woman! Too long degraded, scorned, opprest,” indicates the poet’s recognition of the injustices faced by women courtesy of their male counterparts CITATION Bar19 \l 1033 (Barbauld, 2019). Like men, women have inherent abilities to rule and lead the society as it is through the maternal care of the latter that both grow and develop to occupy the positions they hold in life. Barbauld goes ahead to encourage women to oust or rather oppose any man that disregard their input and clamor for equal rights in the next five stanzas CITATION Bar19 \l 1033 (Barbauld, 2019). The loving and caring nature of women comes out as an impediment to their quest for equality as in subduing the oppressive men they remain subdued by those who are affectionat...